From: Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Stuart McGraw <smcg2297@frii.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: changing multiple pk's in one update
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:02:31 -0700
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Generally speaking, when you need to do this more than once or twice
> in the lifetime of your data, there's something wrong with your data
> model.
True, but there are a few non-traditional data models that would
benefit from this feature. The two that come to my mind are the
Celko nested set tree model, and sequenced temporal tables.
--
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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